Pete takes on Bernie re: 60 Minutes Interview

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

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[jezebel321]

1. he's right. All should take the gloves off with Sanders. NOW!

[Mr.Bill]

28. If someone doesn't do it now, Trump will if he gets the nomination. n/t

[David__77]

34. Sounds pretty rough.

...it’ll be skin to skin contact I guess.

[AlexSFCA]

2. about time

[jimfields33]

8. I thought we were supposed to go after trump

I swear that’s what the mantra was for a month. In fact, last week many were upset they were going after each other. And some even thought trump won the debate. How so much flipped in a short time. Weird. Trump’s loving this I’m afraid.

[Blue_true]

30. Bernie has been criticizing the other candidates and the party since Day1,

it is high time that they hit back.

[jimfields33]

32. I think Buttigieg is the only one going after candidates.

[Blue_true]

35. Bernie has gone after them all, repeatedly. nt

[LaurenOlimina]

3. That's going to be the main Republican attack.

Trump is weak there, so he will attack there. This attack defuses Trumps totalitarian love letters.

[DanTex]

4. Very true. Let's nominate Bernie.

[George II]

10. Why? Have you seen the reaction all over Florida to his interview this weekend? Without Florida....

....we just cannot win.

[DanTex]

11. I've seen the interview, in which Bernie made it clear that Castro is a dictator.

If we're looking for someone who stands firm on human rights, Bernie is a perfect candidate.

[brooklynite]

12. How do you weigh human rights vs a literacy program?

[Cha]

15. Excellent question.. BS not looking at the big picture.

[ramen]

18. I just watched this video a couple times looking for where Sanders is 'weighing' the two things.

He explicitly stated that he condemned the human rights violations, after pointing out some of the reasons that Castro had some support in his country from things like that literacy program. The point he seems to be making here is that Cuban communism was not monolithic.

This is nowhere near the endorsement of Castro that people are making it out to be.

[George II]

13. Apparently to many Floridians, including DEMOCRATIC legislators who represent Cuban Americans...

...in both the state legislature and Congress, those comments don't sit well.

Remember when he made those statements, at a time when Castro was still imprisoning journalists and dissidents and conducting mass executions. In the 1980s he made nary a peep about "human rights"!

Someone praising a murderous dictator is a "perfect candidate"? BTW, Castro isn't the only despot for whom Sanders has extolled their virtues.

[subana]

17. I saw a video today, I think it was on twitter

Marco Rubio was saying that socialism is a Marxist theology. I don't know if it is but it sounds like they might be similar. By saying it's marxist seems to also be saying it's communist.

[Frasier Balzov]

5. Good to see you in your lane, Pete.

The Party will come to you.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. We need to vet our candidates now

It's a good sign the media is digging. We don't need another slow unease that drags us down every time we get a bounce all the way to election day

[George II]

7. Sanders could almost be excused for those comments as being 30 years ago, but he DEFENDED them....

...on Sunday night!

They say Sanders never changes, but that's not always a good thing.

[AlexSFCA]

9. and his supporters agree with him

[ramen]

19. That was not a defense of those comments.

I just watched the video a couple times to make sure I was reading it accurately. He clearly points out that the human rights abuses Cuba committed are to be condemned. Check about halfway through the video.

[George II]

20. He didn't condemn those back in the 1980s when such abuses were rampant.

[ramen]

23. I don't have any direct knowledge of that so I can't argue with that. I hope he did condemn them,

because it was surely condemnable, but can't prove that he did.

[uponit7771]

14. K&R, Sanders was defending Castro the person by saying everything wasn't bad

[ramen]

21. That is not a defense of Castro.

What you are suggesting would mean all leaders everywhere have always been bad. It is not a defense to point out some not-evil things done by a person who did some evil things. He directly condemned the imprisonment of dissidents in this video, for example.

Fuck Castro, for the record, I see that some are suggesting that Sanders supporters have been all-in for Castro all along. Not I.

[uponit7771]

24. Yes it is, the "not all bad" argument a deflection from the net bad of the persons actions.

It goes without saying that humans aren't all bad, there's something about some humans that might be good.

[ramen]

25. I disagree with that interpretation. If he wanted to deflect from those comments,

this would have been a bad way to do it. I don't think he is wrong here. There are many, many brutal things that have happened from US foreign policy. It doesn't make me think that the US is an evil country, on balance. It doesn't make me think all its leaders have been evil.

[uponit7771]

26. Just learned the literacy program wasn't all that good either Castro used it as a way to spread ...

... propaganda not teach literacy by itself.

Sanders comments were a mistake

[Mountain Mule]

16. You tell them, Pete! nt

[aikoaiko]

22. Apparently Pete didn't watch the video he tweeted.

[tishaLA]

27. I'll defend him a little WRT this

As former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted out this morning, Pres Obama made similar arguments about the literacy and healthcare advances made in Cuba post-revolution and the world didn't end.

The difference is that Pres Obama spent much longer talking about human rights violations, etc and really clobbered Castro--in Cuba--after noting the "good things" Castro had done.

He also didn't say Castro "took office," which is a terrible euphemism for a bloody revolution in which you round up and execute your political enemies.

[Scurrilous]

29. K&R

[Crunchy Frog]

31. Dictatorships are a dime a dozen, and we have normal relations with most of them.

I've never understood this overblown fixation that we have on Cuba in particular. It seems like it's mostly about a sixty year long grudge that we seem unable to move past.

[Capt. America]

33. The GOP will have a library of pro-communist dirt on Bernie. Honeymoon in Soviet Moscow?!?!